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week this is. And you know what makes it better? I think you do, because that's why you're here. You're here for this simultaneous sip. And all you need is a cup or a mug or glass, a tankard, a chalice or stein, a canteen, a junker, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit that the simultaneo…

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Yeah, just as good as I thought. Never disappoints.

So let me start off by saying, I don't know how your week is going, but I've had one of the best weeks of my whole life. Honestly, one of the best weeks of my whole life. Number one, it's the end of the year and a lot of people are just sending nice messages. So I'm hearing from people who've just enjoyed interacting during the year, but hearing from a lot of people who say that something I said in my Periscope or something that I wrote in one of my books had changed their lives.

So all week I'm listening to people say, thanks to you I lost weight, I got a job, I got a raise, I started a new career. And I'm just being sort of bathed in good feelings. At the same time I've noticed that all of what I would call the bad trolls on Twitter — I'm not talking about people who would disagree with you and get into an exchange. I'm talking about the ones where it's just, you know, the "F you" leave kind — they all left for vacation.

And I thought to myself, have you noticed by the way if you look online the quality of the interactions are far less because people are on vacation? But it looks like a hundred percent of the good people stayed around and they're just tweeting a little bit less. But all of the people who look like I always suspected they were paid trolls, you know, actually working on the clock, they're all gone.

So what does it tell you that all of the patrons, the ones I suspected were paid, they're all gone? There's none of them on the internet right now. But the good people are still here. So it kind of tells you how not real a lot of the trolling was. Because they still have computers, they still have Wi-Fi, they still have plenty of time on their hands. Nothing changed for the trolls unless they're getting paid. And they're not getting paid this week. Coincidence? I know it could be. Could be some other explanation, but I can't see one.

But even more fun, I got engaged this week. So Christina is now officially my fiancée. And I gotta say I didn't know how different it would feel until after I asked and she said yes. It feels completely different. It just feels completely different, I have to say. So I may tell you more about that at some point. I know that you're gonna want to ask. You think you're gonna wonder how I asked her. And the answer is I put the ring in a box of See's chocolate so that she discovered it. And a good time was had by all.

So I've never felt better. I don't think that's probably the best week ever in my life or one of them. So thank you for being a big part of that. Because you're all actually a huge part of that, every one of you. Because you know this interaction that I do with you and the extended interaction on the internet and Twitter and stuff, I don't really do it for the money. It's not about the money. There's definitely a deeper meaning, deeper purpose. And I'm glad you're all part of it.

So let's talk about some more good news. I tweeted about this but I just want to mention it again because I just throw it in the list wi

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th my good news. In 2006-ish I lost my voice, most of you know this story, to something called spasmodic dysphonia. Which meant that I could make noise in my mouth but I couldn't form proper consonants and sentences without my vocal cords clenching and making it incomprehensible. So I was told that that was a permanent problem and that there was no cure. And therefore the rest of my life I would…

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